Hello and thanks in advance for your advice,
I have recently started putting a lot of thought into going to grad school. I am on track to graduate from North Dakota State University in Spring 2011. I transfered to NDSU from a small private liberal arts school three semesters ago with a 3.23 GPA. My GPA essentially started over at NDSU and I expect to graduate from here with roughly a 3.8+.
My major is management information systems (MIS) but I've learned to love the nitty gritty of computers and am interested in getting a MS in computer science. I'll have about two years of work at Microsoft under my belt by the time I graduate. The work as been some programming, database administration, and sharepoint/SQL deployment. I'm also president of the MIS Club on campus and actively volunteer and am starting my own non-profit to help charities. I'm pretty compitent with a number of languages (VB.net, C#, Java, PHP, VBA, SQL) but lack some of the fundamentals I would have gotten with a CS major such as algorithm techniques etc.
I'm typically an above average test taker but I don't expect to be able to hit 90th percentile on the GRE or the CS subject GRE.
The question is, do I have a shot at the Berkley or Stanford CS masters program? If not, any other recommendations. I've got two standing job offers right now for when I graduate, so I likely wouldn't walk away from them unless I got into an upper tier school.
Thanks
